Drunk Golfing Leads to DUI

Heading out on the golf course soon? If so, take a lesson from Gary
Osborn from Southern California. Police were called after a woman woke
up to find dried blood covering her face. She had no injury and her
only memory was of playing golf with Mr. Osborn. At about the same time
that the police received the call from the woman, The Club at PGA West
security discovered Mr. Osborn passed out in front of a residence on the
golf course, with a badly damaged golf cart nearby. There were no
apparent injuries on Mr. Osborn either, but there was enough evidence
for local law enforcement to take Mr. Osborn in on suspicion of DUI.

Are these charges going to stick? Time will tell, but a golf cart is
a vehicle which means that the same DUI statute applies to golf carts
that applies to cars. In fact, last year we blogged on getting a DUI on a bike!
The golf cart case involves some problems for the prosecution, the most
significant being establishing Mr. Osborn’s impairment at the time he
drove the cart.

What does this mean for the rest of us? The good news for golfers is
that police are not generally trolling local golf courses looking for
golf cart DUIs. If you can avoid crashes, bloody faces, and ending up
face-down in a stranger’s yard, the risk of a DUI is pretty low.
However, and this is a big however, if you’re getting in a car to drive
home after having a few cocktails on the course all bets are off!

Let us know if you have a golfing under the influence story, and read the full article on Mr. Osborn’s woes here.

PS – The picture above is actually not of Mr. Osborn, but it could be you!

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